[amillioninthemaking]

Hi,

I’ve had my developer trying to incorporate a “Printing” page for me. He’s had some issues, mainly with plugin, and having the need to recode everything.

I’ll explain what I want, and maybe you have a better idea. Or maybe there is a plugin which can do this more efficiently.

Here is one of 4 package setups I have. Please look at bottom highlighter table.

I need a calculator on the page similar to any online printing company… view here:

[http://smartpress.com/offering/brochure-printing]

I need the page to have the certain drop downs, as well as give a price on shipping.

I am aware I will need to contact the actual printing company to get weights, but since I will be using their shipping, I need it to be the same. Again, use the link above, that is the company I am working with. UPS I believe.

At the end of the calculator, they should be able to buy.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Matt

[amillioninthemaking]

Hi,

I’ve had my developer trying to incorporate a “Printing” page for me. He’s had some issues, mainly with plugin, and having the need to recode everything.

I’ll explain what I want, and maybe you have a better idea. Or maybe there is a plugin which can do this more efficiently.

Here is one of 4 package setups I have. Please look at bottom highlighter table.

[http://funeralparlour.com/TipsNTricks.xls]

I need a calculator on the page similar to any online printing company… view here:

[http://smartpress.com/offering/brochure-printing]

I need the page to have the certain drop downs, as well as give a price on shipping.

I am aware I will need to contact the actual printing company to get weights, but since I will be using their shipping, I need it to be the same. Again, use the link above, that is the company I am working with. UPS I believe.

At the end of the calculator, they should be able to buy.

Is this possible?

Thanks

Matt

[amillioninthemaking]

Update.

Got that fixed. Developer found the problem. Something about white spaces in code. He made script to determine some things and found that.

Decided to try W3 Total Cache plugin… Again.. to see if it works now.

I got it working, but only after following a suggested workaround shown below (option 2). Without the workaround, it said file not found. The only issue is that if someone right clicks the download and clicks “save link”, they get the real download url.

Any ideas?

Getting the “Requested File Could Not Be Found” Error when clicking on the Encrypted Link

Possible Cause – There can be two reasons for this:

a) The downloadable file doesn’t exists in the specified URL (means you may have a typo in the URL)

b) Your hosting providers PHP settings doesn’t allow the fopen functionality which is the reason you are getting the ‘requested file could not be found’ error when using full/absolute URL to the file.

Workaround

Option 2: The other workaround is to uncheck the ‘Downloadable’ option by editing the product and use a zip file as the downloadable file. This will redirect the buyer to that URL but since the target URL contains a zip file the browser will pop up a download/save as option.

[amillioninthemaking]

Im not sure if they are, I will ask them today.

What type of file am I using? I do think I understand the question correctly. As stated previously, the download file is a .rar file. Its not big 5mb up to 20mb. Have also tried a .zip file with same result.

Please let me know if this is the “file” you are referring to.

[amillioninthemaking]

I tried every method. Didnt do every combination but I did try every method with “absolute”. And the 7th method I tried with “Do Not Convert” i believe. I followed the note under it.

All with same results.

What else can be done?

Cache plugin off

[amillioninthemaking]

I just switched hosting from godaddy to justhost.

Am having an issue with the encrypted download link with justhost. Instead of saving the file, its actually opening the file in the browser and showing hundreds of pages of special characters. Its a .rar file.

This was a question by justhost support.

If it was working at another hosting company and not working here, I wonder if there’s a difference between what libraries they have compiled and loaded with php. Do you know what this encrypted download link requires on the server to work? Does it require any specific thing like mcrypt or mhash? How does the server decrypt the encrypted link to know which file to download? If we know how this works, we can check and see what the server might be missing and let you know if it’s something we can install.

Thanks

Matt

[amillioninthemaking]

Thanks.

Just being on the safe side. Dont want to lose what I did.

On a side not…

Since the category table is seperate, if I make changes to the main table, will I lose the categories? I assume not.

Please let me know.

Thanks again

Matt

[amillioninthemaking]

Thank you for the reply. Although I would still like an answer to my initial question.

****Will it work if I delete all columns except the ID column and the column I want to update?

Eg: I only want to update Product Page URL

So I can leave ID column and product_url column only.****

****Also If the details from a column in the spreadsheet are deleted, will they also be deleted during the import?****

I’ve spent 100 hours or more entering this data into the shopping cart. I dont want to mess with anything. I only want to add a bit of info into several columns. Can I add only specific columns via phpmyadmin import??

Thank You

Matt

[amillioninthemaking]

Hi, checking back in. Its been 2 days and no reply.

Could someone reply please.

Thanks

[amillioninthemaking]

Thanks for the info. Watched the video, got it setup, downloaded the csv file. Everything looks in order. Although I still have a question.

In the video, when Importing Table, it says to check “Replace table data with file”.

I dont see too many other options here.

Will it work if I delete all columns except the ID column and the column I want to update?

Eg: I only want to update Product Page URL

So I can leave ID column and product_url column.

Also If the details from a column in the spreadsheet are deleted, will they also be deleted during the import?

Thanks Again

Matt

[amillioninthemaking]

That makes that part of it easier, but what about other fields that need to be changed in bulk. Fields that are not in global settings.

Also, if it is a global setting, is it possible to leave certain products out of the terms and conditions, or to have a secondary terms and conditions? For example, someone buying customization services would be quite different than someone buying the template.

Thanks

Matt

[amillioninthemaking]

My guy figured out a way. Unfortunately I need to create 1500 new thumbnails. He was changing coding in the css, but he said its global changes, and since my thumbnails were of 3 different sizes (only height was different, width was the same) there was no way to have them display properly. So I am creating new thumbnails with empty transparent space at the top to have them all the same size.

Another question. Is there any way to control the display order other than the order they are loaded into the shopping cart? Right now, I have about 178 products loaded in the shopping cart and they are being displayed Regular – Complete – Basic… And they should be Basic – Regular – Complete.

Let me know if this is possible.

Thanks

Matt

[amillioninthemaking]

When you say custom coding a display, do you mean making a new page in WordPress. Or coding something in the shopping cart to make it display how I want? The reason is, if it is out side of the shopping cart, then there is a ton of additional work. Maybe 2 or 3 times the work. I have 1,500 to insert. That would mean putting 1,500 products into the cart. Then making many new word press pages and plugging in all types of short code. It is much easier and more efficient to be able to enter the products into the cart and have the cart display them properly in their respective categories.

[amillioninthemaking]

I asked him to do some minor changes. Not recreating pages unless absolutely necessary. I asked if the requested layout could be done within the plugin. He said yes. And more or less it can be… But the limitations on thumbnail dimensions is causing an issue. I would prefer the layout done within the shopping cart as it makes life alot simpler. The only issue is the thumbnail dimensions…. And the fact that it loads the entire size of the picture rather than a thumbnail size… Therefore its quite slow. It would be best to be able to set a max width, so that the height can adjust accordingly.

I could be misunderstanding your response when you said “reading the product details for the database and showing it however you want it”… Yes this is the shopping cart display we are using, and it is much simpler than creating individual pages in wp. So if this is possible, to have the thumbnails shown with different heights within the shopping cart. Or somehow being able to change the coding to allow various heights and set widths.

If this can be done in the plugin coding, please tell me and where abouts it is so I can let him know. Because he was really good at changing the coding with everything else I asked. This was the only problem…

Thanks again

Matt

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